Monday, November 19, 2012

"Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s
elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling
violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the
economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians
live in the planet’s largest internment camp. These sacrifice zones, filled with
seas of pitifully poor people trapped in squalid slums or mud-walled villages,
are increasingly hemmed in by electronic fences, monitored by surveillance
cameras and drones and surrounded by border guards or military units that shoot
to kill. These nightmarish dystopias extend from sub-Saharan Africa to Pakistan
to China. They are places where targeted assassinations are carried out, where
brutal military assaults are pressed against peoples left defenseless, without
an army, navy or air force. All attempts at resistance, however ineffective, are
met with the indiscriminate slaughter that characterizes modern industrial
warfare......"